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Adelina Marini

#thespeech British PM David Cameron will any minute now begin his long-awaited speech abut Britain's future in the EU. It was delayed several times and there was controversy on the date and place of the speech. Stay on this website for live updates from the speech.

23 January 2013 09:04

Adelina Marini#thespeech I want to speak to you about the future of Europe, but let's first remember the past, David Cameron began.

23 January 2013 09:09

Adelina Marini#thespeech The 1st purpose of the EU to ensure peace has been achieved.

23 January 2013 09:10

Adelina MariniEurope's new purpose must be ensuring prosperity.

23 January 2013 09:10

Adelina Marini#thespeech Our history is not only of an island, but continental too. We have always been a European power and always will be.

23 January 2013 09:12

Adelina Marini#thespeech I never wanted to isolate us from the world, but I want a better deal for Britain. And not just any deal but a better deal for Europe too. This is why I speak as a British PM for a positive future for Europe. A future in which Britain should play an active role.

23 January 2013 09:15

Adelina MariniI don't want an exit from the EU but a relation with it which will keep us in. #thespeech

23 January 2013 09:16

Adelina Marini#thespeech Cameron pronounced himself a heretic, recalling that many times in Europe's history heretics proved to have a point.

23 January 2013 09:20

Adelina Marini#thespeech Completing the single market must be out main mission. Our task should be to save the small enterprises from the EU directives. Ineffective decision-making must be changed.

Adelina Marini#EUspeech Larger role for national parliaments. There is no European demos.

23 January 2013 09:29

Adelina Marini#thespeech The EU is moving toward a political union- something the citizens have not voted for. Some say that with a referendum a question mark is put for UK's EU membership. But that question mark is already there.

23 January 2013 09:33

Adelina Marini#thespeech Now is not the time for a referendum when it is still unclear what kind of a choice we have to make.

23 January 2013 09:35

Adelina MariniCameron joins those (like Barroso) who call for Treaty changes to reform the eurozone. However, he wants an entirely new treaty

23 January 2013 09:37

Adelina Marini#thespeech Cameron asked in 2015 the British citizens to give a mandate for a Conservative government and for a new deal for Europe

23 January 2013 09:38

Adelina Marini#thespeech We are different to the countries that have access to the single market but are not EU members. Norway for instance sits on the biggest energy resources in Europe. The EU is a Union of rules which are not always to our liking, but this doesn't mean we have to leave.

23 January 2013 09:42

Adelina Marini#thespeech Britain should want to stay in the EU and the EU should want Britain to stay

23 January 2013 09:43

Adelina Marini#EUspeech The long-awaited speech of David Cameron has just ended. While I was listening I was again thinking that Cameron has always spoken to the British citizens. I don't remember a time when he addressed the European citizens or the European citizens as well

23 January 2013 09:47

Adelina Marini#thespeech Given that Cameron asked for re-election and only then a serious discussion of Britain's future in the EU to begin, we can expect that those would be the first elections in the country with a focus on EU

Adelina Marini#EMU Moscovici: The proposal which non-euro area countries will not be able to refuse is not of the type as in the movie "The Godfather"

6 December 2017 13:56

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#ECOFIN EU finance ministers have adopted today a package for taxation of the digital economy

5 December 2017 14:41

Adelina Marini#ECOFIN Dombrovskis: The Council has also approved a revised recommendation to #Romania demanding additional corrections of the budget deficit. The Council is concerned about Romania's fiscal sustainability